The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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Stran 41
... language ( also called figures of words or of speech ) , sought agreeable sounds either alone or in combination , as in parallel- isms , antitheses , alliterations , rhymes , and assonances . The sec- ond , figures of thought ( also ...
... language ( also called figures of words or of speech ) , sought agreeable sounds either alone or in combination , as in parallel- isms , antitheses , alliterations , rhymes , and assonances . The sec- ond , figures of thought ( also ...
Stran 64
... language of modera- tion and seasoning ; facetus , the language of polished elegance ; iocus , the language of merriment ; and dicacitas , the language of banter . When Dryden first defined wit as " propriety ” in his " Au- thor's ...
... language of modera- tion and seasoning ; facetus , the language of polished elegance ; iocus , the language of merriment ; and dicacitas , the language of banter . When Dryden first defined wit as " propriety ” in his " Au- thor's ...
Stran 286
... language was the very antithesis of the universality of the truth sought by the Republic of Wit . As Steele complained in the Tatler , No. 12 , “ Gamsters , banterers , biters , swearers , and twenty new - born insects more , are , in ...
... language was the very antithesis of the universality of the truth sought by the Republic of Wit . As Steele complained in the Tatler , No. 12 , “ Gamsters , banterers , biters , swearers , and twenty new - born insects more , are , in ...
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope Augustan Reprint Society Beauty Bishop Sprat Blackmore called chap comedy concept context conversation Country Wife Cowley decorum Dennis Discourse Dryden dull Dunciad Earl English epigram Essay on Criticism expression extravagant faculty faculty psychology false wit fancy figures Flecknoe fool genius Gulliver Hobbes HORNER Houyhnhnms humor imagination intellectual irreligion John John Dryden Jonathan Swift kind of wit LADY FIDGET laugh learning letter literary little wits London Longinus manner meaning ment metaphor metaphysical metaphysical poets mind moral nature neoclassical ornamentation play poem poet poetic Poetry Pope popular Preface to Valentinian pretenders propriety psychology raillery reason Republic of Wit rhetorical ridicule rules satire secret grace sect sense seventeenth century Shadwell Shaftesbury Spectator Spingarn spirit style sublime Swift Tatler things Thomas Hobbes thought tion true wit truth turn vice Wit and Humour wit's witty Wolseley words writing wrote